Powershell will not start or stop Windows service with nssm - powershell

Question

i have a script made in powershell and i am using nssm to create as a service to be executed every "x" time, however when starting the service it generates error and does not execute.
I have full administrator rights and I even tried to run PowerShell as an administrator without success.
If I run the script directly it works, however using nssm it is not working.
The error that happens is this:
Start-Service: Service 'nice (nice)' start failed.
At C: \ Program Files \ NICE Systems \ nssm.ps1: 10 char: 14
Start-Service <<<< $ serviceName
CategoryInfo: OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController: ServiceController) [Start-Service],
ServiceCommandException
FullyQualifiedErrorId: StartServiceFailed, Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand
nssm.ps1
$nssm = (Get-Command nssm.exe).Definition
$serviceName = 'nice'
$powershell = (Get-Command powershell.exe).Definition
$scriptPath = 'C:\Program Files\NICE Systems\script_delecao.ps1'
$arguments = '-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -File "{0}"' -f $scriptPath
& $nssm install $serviceName $powershell $arguments
& $nssm status $serviceName
Start-Service $serviceName
Get-Service $serviceName
script_delecao.ps1
$logPath = "C:\Program Files\NICE Systems\Logs\*\Archive\*"
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SET $NDAYS WITH THE NUMBER OF DAYS TO KEEP IN LOG FOLDER.
$nDays = 180
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SET $EXTENSIONS WITH THE FILE EXTENSION TO DELETE.
# YOU CAN COMBINE MORE THAN ONE EXTENSION: "*.LOG, *.TXT,"
$Extensions = "*.log*"
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# PAY ATTENTION! IF YOU COMBINE MORE THAN ONE LOG PATH AND EXTENSIONS,
# MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT REMOVING FILES THAT CANNOT BE DELETED
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$PathDelete = "C:\Program Files\NICE Systems\Delecoes"
while ($true) {
If(!(test-path $PathDelete))
{
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $PathDelete
}
$LogDate = (Get-Date).ToString("dd_MM_yyyy")
$DateTime = (Get-Date).ToString("yyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss")
$Files = Get-Childitem $LogPath -Include $Extensions -Recurse | Where `
{$_.LastWriteTime -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-$nDays)}
foreach ($File in $Files)
{
if ($File -ne $NULL)
{
$Log = $DateTime + " - O arquivo " + $File + " foi deletado "
$Log | Out-File -Append $PathDelete\DeleteLogFile_$LogDate.log
Remove-Item $File.FullName| out-null
}
}
# Add a sleep at the end of the loop to prevent the script from eating
# too much CPU time
$Log = $DateTime + " FINAL DO ARQUIVO "
$Log | Out-File -Append $PathDelete\DeleteLogFile_$LogDate.log
Start-Sleep -Seconds 300
}

Answer 1

I believe I have a similar scenario where I cannot back-up Bamboo file system while it's running. My back-up executes from a rundeck server via Remote PowerShell, and even though the user has local admin rights it cannot stop and start services using NSSM. So I use this function to run the command elevated
ELEVAT "nssm stop bamboo"
tar --exclude=./logs --exclude=./temp --exclude=*.log --exclude=*.jar --verbose -czf E:\dropfolder\bamboo-home.tar.gz --directory=E:\bamboo-home .
ELEVAT "nssm start bamboo"
the function itself...
function ELEVAT ($command) {
$scriptBlock = [scriptblock]::Create($command)
configuration elevated {
Import-DscResource -ModuleName 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration'
Set-StrictMode -Off
Node localhost {
Script execute {
SetScript = $scriptBlock
TestScript = {
if (([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
Write-Verbose "Verified Elevated Session"
return $false
} else {
Write-Verbose "Not an Elevated Session!"
exit 9996
}
}
GetScript = { return #{ 'Result' = 'RUN' } }
}
}
}
$mof = elevated
Start-DscConfiguration ./elevated -Wait -Verbose -Force
if ( $error ) { Write-Host "[ELEVAT][WARN] `$Error[] = $Error" ; $Error.clear()
}
}